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Pub. Date
[2012].
Description
One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America.".
Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Under the Mistletoe: Susan Chandler has devoted her life to helping others while rarely thinking about helping herself. This year the tables will turn when a local radio station takes over her love life after an innocent call from her eight year old son. Whether she likes it or not, Susan is under the mistletoe.
Holiday Wishes: Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after visiting Santa Claus at the mall. Each girl wakes...
164) Funny money
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Description
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Kate is a well-bred lass who passes herself off as a barmaid in order to win the heart of her stuffy suitor. Full of mistaken identities and multiple deceptions, the play pokes fun at the various masks we all wear in different social situations. Along the way, each person learns much about the nature of true love.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Jon Arbuckle travels to the London and decides to bring his cat, Garfield, along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle after swapping places with an aristocratic kitty who has inherited a fabulous castle. Garfield's reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Ernest goes to camp: Ernest P. Worrell, handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor--to a gang of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center.
Ernest goes to jail: Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all Ernest P. Worrell could serve on a jury and end up serving time in jail in place of the criminal.
Ernest scared stupid: Ernest accidentally unleashes an evil demon from its sacred...
170) Easy Living
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
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Description
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The taming of the shrew: "Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew tells the tale of the sharp-tongued Kate, who must marry before her younger sister, Bianca, is allowed to find a suitor. Undaunted by her waspish reputation Petruchio attempts to woo the not-so-fair maiden, but is faced with a tirade of poisonous insults"--Container
Twelfth night: "One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (The Daily Telegraph) for...
174) W Juliet: Vol. 3
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura has become fast friends with her schoolmate and fellow drama enthusiast Makoto Amano. The problem? Makoto's a boy who must pass as a female drama student in order for his family to approve of his acting ambitions.
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
Road to Bali: In the only "Road" film to appear in colour, Road To Bali sees two song-and-dance men hurriedly leaving Melbourne to work as divers. On the way to Bali, they journey to an idyllic island where they compete with each other for the affection of Princess Lala. Meanwhile, some shady locals become interested in the dive after it produces a chest of priceless jewels. Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour also star in this musical comedy.
My favorite...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In Rear window: A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartment.
Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in death.
In...
179) Laura
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Investigating the murder of a beautiful woman, a police detective finds himself falling in love with her.
180) Amid stars and darkness (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): [No. 1 : Xenith trilogy]
Author
Series
Xenith trilogy volume 01
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Accidentally kidnapped after being mistaken for an alien princess who is hiding on Earth to escape an arranged marriage, teen Delaney is forced to impersonate her look-alike to avoid an intergalactic war and the enslavement of the human race.